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Meanings of tuning fork in English

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Usage of tuning fork in English
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Middle C is obtained in the usual way, from the tuning fork.
Piano Tuning: A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs
2
Their volume raised until the entire vessel became one great tuning fork.
Stars rain down
3
Now if I strike this tuning fork you have a vibrating note.
The Poisoned Pen
4
The chopsticks she's holding in her fist vibrate like a tuning fork.
End of Watch
5
The pole, as I caught it, was quivering like a tuning fork.
The new yorker
6
Her tuning fork sat upright on the table, humming slightly, directly between us.
Ghost Story
7
His body trembled like a tuning fork, lightly and without cease.
The lonely polygamist: a novel
8
A laser is to light, as a tuning fork would be to sound.
The new yorker
9
Photo courtesy: Taipei 101 A skyscraper is a giant tuning fork.
Wired
10
He doesn't need perfect pitch; he has a tuning fork.
The new yorker
11
He knocks his tuning fork against the story to see how to pitch it.
The Irish Times
12
She must have gotten a look at my position through her little tuning fork.
Ghost Story
13
Somewhere, an icy tuning fork struck a bar of silver and rang and rang.
The story of edgar sawtelle
14
The tuning fork-shaped dropship banked and raced up the slope.
Ghosts of Onyx
15
It makes something inside me sing like a tuning fork.
Lone Wolf
16
He rang the doorbell, heard it fill the house with a long, tuning fork hum.
Cold springs